skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think when a service is so obviously beneficial to the artist, like Rap Genius, the industry will find a way to work with them as opposed to suing them. This only helps theor bottom line.
working here fine.
I love the 9th Circuit.
PHP followed a very uncommon path. Features were added as needed, in an incremental fashion. Nice syntax is never a huge problem, though that's probably most people complaint. That said, it isn't worse than its "contenders" in terms of feature set. You get a decent object system, lambdas (note that they'd been there for a long time, but it's more convenient now), a wide range of bindings.
It's not pretty, but it does the job in many cases.

But, anyway, if you're really looking for a good language (something efficient, where you don't have to spend hours to spot a stupid bug), skip the dynamic ones altogether, and go for as much static analysis you can get.
Las altas tasas de cáncer de mama entre las tropas
PlantUML, a neat tool for UML generation with text
You make some great points, but I think the "Internet Apologists" school of thought is closer to your "Crowd Patronage" idea than you realise. As you said, recorded music is fairly recent, but gathering around to enjoy a show goes waaaay back...and I think it's a great business model going forward.

One great example of this in action is Hoodie Allen. He releases all his music free on Soundcloud[1] and Youtube[2], where he funds/makes his own (pretty impressive) music videos to gain his audience. No record label required. His music is on iTunes, but I'm guessing the real money is made in concerts.

[1] http://soundcloud.com/hoodieallenmusic

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t431MAUQlQ
I disagree, this is a 'I haven't been in a car wreck so I see no value in seat belts' kind of story.

Friends is one thing, family is another. There is a reason every single HR boiler plate policies binder has a section which prohibits members of the same family from having a reporting relationship with each other.
I think it doesnt matter what we say. You should give it a try. The investment required to start up a blog is negligible.
Until a judge rules it binding, it isn't. It's just a bunch legal verbiage.
For nostalgia's sake, here are the 9/11 threads: http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?startdate=20010911
This is something I don't get about these clauses in contracts. Law should supersede any private contract otherwise what's the point of having such law?
They're not, but they're a solution to a basic structural problem in the law. In countries like the US that depend on private suits to accomplish what in some other countries would be done through government enforcement actions, it becomes possible to profit by screwing over a large number of people for a small amount each. If that amount is less than a threshold, it becomes unprofitable to litigate, and only a few such claims will be brought, far less than the actual damages caused by the company.
You could market packaged dog poop, doesn't mean lots of people are going to buy it. There's a fundamental value there for Juggalos, and I personally think it's beyond ICP's music.
You can do many things to spark curiosity in visitors to a landing page. Some may grant you a few extra minutes to follow their curiosity... but then what? Most of them will get an answer to their questions and then stop using the service. We see this on checkout flows where people will put something in their cart because they are simply curious about shipping costs and taxes. Then the site owners wonder why there is such high cart abandonment.
Absurd. Think of what a class action lawsuit is, in its bare form - it is a form of free speech - a peaceable assembly.

I dislike runaway litigation as much as anyone, blah blah blah, but you can't keep me from peaceably assembling for whatever reasons I see fit.
NO WAY! Whoa, mind blowing insights.
CubicleNinjas, your post is dead, but you seem to offer some good feedback for the Layervault team. Just a heads up that you might want to create a new account and repost.
Check out the client stats: http://appnetizens.com/clientstats
Ask HN: Has anyone here built anything on either ThriftDB or FluidInfo?
What has been your experience? They seemed really cool when they came out - but it doesnt look like much has been done with them/or they have been updated much.

Is there something new/better than ThriftDB or FluidInfo that you know about that you can post here?
If Mr. Hogan introduced the 10 year limit himself, and if bankruptcy remained on his credit history for 10 years, that could serve as the starting point for an argument that he was thinking specifically about his own bankruptcy-inducing lawsuit during his deliberations.
Even if the government manages your pension funds, they're still going to be invested in stocks and bonds, ultimately.

Having a savings account is just about the dumbest thing you could do right now, since the rates are essentially 0%: http://articles.boston.com/2012-10-01/business/34178552_1_in...

Yet they still have the audacity to ask me if I want to open one every time I visit the bank. It must be hard keeping a straight face.
> So is this legal in the US? How many of your constitutional rights can you give up in a contract in the US?

In the US, the general rule is that you can give up your Constitutional rights via contracts. It's, e.g., the basis for our criminal justice system, where plea bargaining (which is the criminal analogue of a civil settlement contract) is used in almost all cases despite a Constitutional right to a jury trial.
Rapgenius is good in the way StackOverflow is good: A novel, well-executed UI to a kind of website that has been done to death (in this case its lyrics sites). Not to mention good SEO.

It also suffers from the same problem, which is that the users that are most engaged are often not the best people to give explanations. I pretty frequently see tracks that have bad annotations, misunderstand lines (not to mention just straight out wrong lyrics), or break the context.

Here's an example:
http://rapgenius.com/Aesop-rock-were-famous-lyrics#note-7597...

That entire stanza the "favorite" is totally sarcastic, he's specifically calling out another MC (Esoteric) for just doing lame songs about transformers. In fact, the 2 marks after that block (which are part of the same verse) are properly noting who he is targeting. So in this case, the the lyrics are wrong, the selected lines are breaking the context, and the explanation is totally contrary to whats even being discussed.

There is no "crowdsourced" way of fixing this, just a note that the "staff" hasn't verified it. I see this pretty frequently, actually on pretty much every track I've looked up there.

I think its a great idea, but it should take a lesson from SO or even wikipedia on how to actually correct problems like this, rather than just leaving it to the first person to post it.

Edit: This may be a factor of this stuff being a bit more obscure and dense than your average Kanye or Rick Ross track, as well as being unpopular, but I've put in several suggestions over the last year and never heard back anything about things being accepted or being able to actually make corrections.
I think that twig got its root in the django templating engine (which is python based), because of the resemblance. It's very good indeed. I'm not sure if the original had support for filters though.
My understanding was that the shapes shown in the pictures are the debris piles left after the geysers.
I'm glad they make it so easy!
A Brief Pause
"Scalia was joined in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito."

Big fing surprise.
How to pass a Google interview
The fact that they are reading off of cue cards about their own project isnt exactly encouraging.

Why do we need spaces specifically marketed to "hacking"? Hacking requires a computer, a table, a chair and electricity - just about any real estate fits those parameters.

On top of it 1.5 million through crowdsourcing for this sort of thing I have to doubt would come even close to cutting it for getting things off the ground. Syndication through real estate investors would probably give you a much better shot.
That he thinks slightly larger is potentially a good thing doesn't make it an inconsistent belief that hugely larger is not a good thing.
> ... the dry vocal track is typically dead center in the mix.

What do you mean by 'dead center in the mix'?
Thanks. I found an easier way -- deleting my PayPal account.
Insufficient refinery capacity? - sort of, perhaps:

http://research.tdwaterhouse.ca/research/public/Markets/Comm...

The weekly status report has a section on refinery utilization:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_sndw_a_(na)_yup_pct_w.ht...

I don't really follow that chart so I've no idea what the normal ranges are but it suggests that the current 85-90% utilization is not some kind of upper limit (e.g., for safety or process reasons), so there is actually spare capacity.
I greatly respect Dustin Curtis as a designer but the precision with which he treats this subject is entirely derived from the flawed assumption that the perfect phone size can be narrowed down to half-inch increments.

I have a Galaxy Nexus with a 4.65" in screen and I use it one-handed all the time in both my left and right hands, sometimes even while cycling in central London. It comes out of the pocket easily, I've never dropped it, ergonomics are great. I don't know what kind of pixie hands some of these pundits have, but I am 6' tall with a slender frame and pretty average hands.

I can't help but feel that a lot of people making this point about optimal size are drinking a bit too much of the Apple koolaid. Hey, I love Apple stuff in general, but that doesn't mean I subscribe to the view that their way is the one true path to perfection and everything else automatically falls short. People put this stuff up on a pedestal and then start justifying every aspect retroactively. Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe the iPhone originally had a 3.5" screen because that's what was economical at the time rather than that god handed specs down to Johnny Ive on Mount Sinai?
What I took away is that women like to share things and men follow women. This isnt snarky, but an observation that might be applied to other sites that are not obviously women oriented.
Great feedback, Joel.

1.)“ You didn't show what you were using before, but at a dismal 5% conversion I am guessing it was straight screenshots that weren't "posed" on a device or anything?“

I looked hard for a screenshot of our original landing page but couldn’t dig one up. The screenshots were of the parts of our site that were resonating the most with our most engaged users, and we got good feedback on both the screenshots themselves and the visual design. However, we found that the additional complexity for our average user in having to parse and understand a bunch of screenshots is not as effective as a sports-related photo with a simple, powerful tagline and explanation.

“I don't think I would call a football and baseball image "random" on a sports site, though.”

You’re right, random wasn’t the right word. We meant that we didn’t experiment much with the photo itself or ask for feedback from a wide list of sources.

2.)“Your original headline was a classic mistake.”
We are not just talking about taglines or even comparing the two taglines we showed here. In fact, “A Social Network for Sports Fans” is almost as vague as “Follow Sports Together”.
We experimented with a lot of other options for messaging and many which were more detailed and clear (3 bullet points on the key benefits of the site, for instance).

In these experiments, we consistently, we found that simple but curiosity-inciting messaging works better than more detailed and clearer messaging.

4.) This lesson is obvious to us now, but was not obvious from the start. By sharing our results we are hoping that others will avoid our mistakes, even the ones that may be obvious to you.

5.) That sounds like a cool study. I'd love to read about it even you can find the link.

6.) Thanks!
Anonymous attacks Sweden
Laws create private rights, and those rights can be contracted-away. Say the securities laws create a private right of action for people who make misrepresentations on a prospectus. If you're an investor who buys a security from a shady issuer, you can choose to sue or not. The law just creates a right of action, it doesn't force you to use it. The law views contracts to give up that right of action as being just a part of your discretion in exercising that right.

Obviously a contract can't protect a company from, say, criminal enforcement by the SEC, because that's a right held by the government, not the injured individuals.
> If there actually were libs that are well documented and do the same thing...

I thought you were implying that you required libs you contribute to to be well documented.
"If you do not care about music enough to seek it out (which is most people) and music is just something that's in your life when you're driving to work or doing the cleaning you rely on the "music industry" to be your aggregator"

This is already beginning to shatter. last.fm, genius on itunes and many more will just play music that you like based on some input. It works pretty well now, in five years it's going to be great.
Given the amount of money that goes into Juror Analysis in huge cases like this, is it possible Samsung knew about this all along and was keeping as an ace up their sleeve in case they lost?
I participated in this just now. Gotta say it was a really interesting experience, talking your mind around what you're trying to make, and all the different possibilities around it. Also the guys running it are really friendly. Totally recommend signing up if you haven't given it a try.
:)

Ill choose to rage on whichever form page happens to be an open tab at the time.
Disclaimer: This is all assuming the entry is factually correct. Considering the authors mindset I'm not too sure about that.

a) When they told readers they are working with the publisher while they don't
b) They are asking the author of a book if he has the copyright required for the updated version? What?
c) They should at the very least tell reviewers that there is an update when the review is below 5 stars.
You're confusing Drupal with a CMS. It's much more, and less.
He's probably lying. Amazon was for years.
I meant that it doesn't allow arbitrary forking. There are cases in which it's illegal to keep using it, whereas with the GPL at most you'd have to release the derivative source to your (paying) users.
The case against idea monopolisation
MPAA chief admits: SOPA and PIPA "are dead, they're not coming back."
So, this is basically a thoughtful list of text manipulation programs for the Mac. And a great list at that.

I was astonished and slightly embarrassed to find out that my personal answer to all his use cases are Emacs.

Still, I fully concur with his sentiment: Text encoding issues aside, the only data format with sufficient longevity and compatibility for long time storage is plain text. It is what drives technology. It is source code. It is markup. It is the universal format for communicating with computers and humans.

That said, a smattering of HTML or LaTeX can go a long way to make plain text more printer/reading friendly.
One important distinction here is that the health benefits from cycling, even without a helmet, outweigh the dangers by a factor between 7-1 and 20-1, depending on the study.

Any policy which reduces the number of people who would otherwise choose to bicycle is de facto worse for people's health. If mandatory helmet laws decreases the number of bike trips by even one, it's a net loss.
Equally loud on both the left and right tracks of a stereo recording.
Someone posted something dumb on 4chan and this newspaper called the cops to create a story. Nothing going on here folks, move along.
Re: Option A

We obviously are operating with an extremely limited dataset (currently of size "1"), but there are a few things we can look at that may tell us something about the likelihood of particular characteristics evolving.

We know that flight has evolved on Earth at least four completely distinct times (no common flying ancestors): birds, bats, bugs, and pterosaurs. The basics of eyes are thought to share a common ancestor, but complex image forming eyes are thought to have evolved dozens of times.

I'm sure there are many better examples; I have only studied biology in my spare time as an adult, so maybe a biologist can step in.

The basic idea though is that since the driving force behind the change is not random certain general ideas are likely to keep on popping up over time. Now, are the building blocks likely to be the same? Hard to say, the chemistry for carbon based life works particularly well, but there are hypothetical alternatives. I can't speak to which is more likely than the other.

The question of "how likely is this" is really quite involved.
But expect more legal agreements to do this.
The possibilities as you mentioned are limitless, and definitely this can be something, that behaves just the same way as Iron Man's gadget's do, however, a slight difference will be that water vapours provide a surface that can get easily distorted by flow of wind, and might not seem that cool, when compared to a projection on a solid glass surface or some other transparent surface of other material.

But if one can compromise on this thing, then surely it is worthing trying for. Real good mix of technologies.
I'm concerned about this feature, described on their home page:

> If you use an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, you can enable Lockitron to sense when you walk up to the door and unlock for you using Bluetooth 4.0. We call it Sense.

Can it sense which side of the door you are on? If I'm coming in from outside, then having the door unlock as I approach would be useful. If I'm going to the door from inside, to look through the peephole to see who is pounding on the door and yelling for me to open it, I would not find it helpful for the door to unlock itself.
Face books use case is a pathological case from universities back when a 10MB hard disk cost more than a professor. Universities do reuse email addresses but that's policy not need - and even universities can change policy.

Username is horrific as a global identifier - I hate easily.co.uk every time my browser cache gets cleared.

Adding new addresses to an account works and really ISPs ought never reuse emails. A new RFC perhaps?
Firefox for Windows 8 Metro UI : Preview Available for Download
RMS didn't foresee the server hole. That's why GNU came out with the Affero GPL in 2007: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
woops... "drush up" should be "drush fu"
Great article. Have you read Musicking by Christopher Small? If not, you definitely should.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Musicking-Meanings-Performing-Listen...

Also, it might be interesting to chat a bit more. Drop me an email - rob at [see profile for domain].
No. It is important to "look the part" but a fat person is well fitting cloths can look better than a thin person in a suit which is two sizes too big.

When people picture this question they're picturing some guy in a small t-shirt with a massive beer-belly. Which we can all agree looks horrible.

Now draw that picture again with a well fitting suit...
Show HN: HTTPie in the browser, quick web service testing.
What is the issue with email verification for SIGNUP? This is pretty standard practice as it is. Eventually you need to contact the user, so better to make sure the email is correct from the beginning. If not, I could for example sign up for mail chimp with your email then proceed to send a bunch of people lude spam, leading to mail chimp then sending you angry emails. Even if they use it appropriately, if you later ever want a mail chimp account it will tell you you already have one, leading to true confusion.
Congrats! Is it an acquihire?
"I really hope we don't find that it shares a common ancestor with life on Earth".

Could you give a definition here (of 'common ancestor'), please?

I don't have an angle here, I'm just trying to understand your statement better.

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I think it's important to have your core text editor - the thing that makes you a living - be something that you can take with you anywhere. You're pretty much looking at vim or emacs in this case.

I think of HTML as an output format more than anything else. LaTeX, while powerful, is terrible for reading what you've authored. That's why Markdown is so appealing, it's a semantic syntax rather than markup; it's easy to write, easy to read, and has the added benefit of being programmatically processed.

Kudos for not reducing this to a vim/emacs flamewar.
Sometimes You Just Have to Put a Product Out There
IANAL, but wouldn't the Supreme Court's subsequent ruling in the AT&T case supersede that? http://www.npr.org/2011/04/28/135785797/supreme-court-impose...
This is an excellent point.

I did some quick Googling (ha!) and found that GS net income per employee for last quarter on an annualized basis was about $119,000, less than half Google's average

http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/17/investing/goldman-sachs-earn...

$962 million * 4 quarters / 32,300 employees = $119,133
Ask HN: What are some good technical/hacker related Twitter accounts to follow?
It has to do with keeping customers, learning about them, and selling goods/services to them over and over.

The other side of the coin is the aim to maximize profitability (collect and sell data). Take the humanity out of the equation and look at the business plan thru the lens of a logical, emotionless strategy. I am not saying that is good or bad, but it certainly is logical, no denying that.
Can you cite a source? Hell, I'll lower the bar, can you even explain the logic in that?

First time I've ever heard someone try to make the link between ambition and excess weight.

I know tons of overweight highly successful individuals, in fact some of the most successful people I know are overweight, they simply work all hours of the day and eat crap between work.

It is an unhealthy lifestyle, absolutely, but an indicator for a lack of ambition? ...